CN1487428A - Controller for outer multi-channel network disc array and its protocol fitting method - Google Patents
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The present invention is controller for outer multi-channel disc array and its protocol fitting method. The controller includes system unit channel interface module, memory device interface module, network interface module and array operation controlling module. The system unit channel interface module and the memory device interface module execute block device level oriented protocol, the former is configured into peripheral interface in TARGET mode, and the latter into one in MASTER mode. The system unit channel interface module provides the system unit with block device level storage service and forms direct data passage between the memory device and the user via the network interface module. The protocol adaption includes five modes of direct corresponding, command conversion, command merging, command synthesis and virtual response. The present invention reaches the aims of reducing average service standby time and raising average user's data transmission rate.
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Technical field
The invention belongs to computer memory technical field, be specifically related to the protocol fitting method of a kind of external multichannel network disc array controller and use thereof.
Background technology
Because the growth at full speed of network application and the data volume index that accompanies with it increase, and use efficient, reliable, flexible, jumbo memory device to become a kind of trend of IT industry.The insider satisfies a large amount of needs of propagating of online data, have on the RAID technical foundation of disk tolerance function, develop and produced the disparate networks memory control device, for example have the array control device (seeing Chinese invention patent CN1407461A) of network interface, the webserver that has disk array, network attached storage control device (Network Attached Storage, NAS) or storage area network (Storage Area Network, SAN).The control device that CN1407461A provided is dependent, and all storage I/O and network I/O operation must take the CPU and the memory source of place main frame, have limited the expansion of host services ability.And this three classes memory control device of the webserver, NAS and SAN, although NAS carries out special performance optimization at network and memory function, SAN has improved interoperability performance between multiserver and multiple storage devices by the dedicated interconnection network between server and memory device, but this three classes control device all adopts old pattern when linking up memory device, main frame and user, that is: main frame interrelates by the main frame peripheral channel and the memory device of control device, and the user is by main frame peripheral channel and the host network interface and the memory device indirect association of control device.Because this annexation makes the performance degree of storage device performance be subject to host channel and host process ability, the I/O data need experience repeatedly to store to transmit and could arrive the user, have increased the stores service delay, have limited the stores service bandwidth.These network storage control device only provide single piece level or file-level stores service usually in addition, can not tackle the needs of applied environment change flexibly.
In view of this, how making up a reliable memory control device with the performance advantage of giving full play to the high-performance memory device with stores service is provided flexibly, is an important and significant problem in fact.
Summary of the invention
The objective of the invention is to, at the deficiencies in the prior art, a kind of external multichannel network disc array controller is provided, and this control device can change memory device and main frame, user's single connection mode, gives full play to high-performance magnetism disk array performance advantage; The Storage Service Type of flexibility and changeability is provided, is user-friendly to, and reach the purpose that reduces the average service stand-by period and improve user's average data rate.The present invention also provides this control device employed protocol fitting method.
External multichannel network disc array controller of the present invention comprises host channel interface module, storage device interface module, Network Interface Module and array operation control module, and first three module links to each other with the array operation control module by pci bus; Wherein,
The array operation control module comprises CPU, RAM and EPROM, and this module provides computing power and running environment, to realize the control function of each module initialization, order decomposition/merging, protocol conversion, cache management and I/O task scheduling apparatus;
The host channel interface module is made of one or more host channel interfaces, provides this device to be connected with the calibrated bolck device level passage of host computer system;
The storage device interface module by one or more storage device interfaces, provides being connected of this device and memory device;
Network Interface Module is made up of one or more network interfaces, directly accepts the I/O data that the user asked and received and dispatched the user by specific protocol, forms the direct data channel between memory device and user;
Host channel interface module and storage device interface module are all carried out towards the agreement of block device level, and the host channel interface is a Peripheral Interface of being arranged to the TARGET attitude; The storage device interface module is to be arranged to the Peripheral Interface of MASTER attitude, provides block device level stores service by the host channel interface module to main frame.
The employed protocol fitting method of above-mentioned multichannel network disc array controller, described array operation control module carries out protocol conversion in the following ways, realizes the mutual conversion and the co-ordination of multiple I/O and procotol:
(1) direct corresponded manner:, then directly realize if the I/O order identical with first agreement arranged in second agreement;
(2) command conversion mode: realize with I/O command conversion similar in second agreement to first agreement;
(3) order merging mode: the I/O order some of the same type to first agreement realizes with same or analogous I/O order in second agreement;
(4) order is olation: first protocol of I/O order is realized with same or analogous some I/O orders in second agreement;
(5) virtual response mode: when not having same or similar I/O to order in second agreement, carry out rational execution result simulation, directly respond.
The present invention utilizes hyperchannel, parallel extendible method, changes memory device and main frame, user's single connection mode, gives full play to high-performance magnetism disk array performance advantage; Utilize network configuration flexibility and transmittability, the Storage Service Type of flexibility and changeability is provided, be user-friendly to.By shortening access path, reduce average service stand-by period and the purpose that improves user's average data rate thereby reach.Particularly, the present invention has the following advantages and effect:
1. utilize its hyperchannel characteristic, can shorten the network user's I/O data routing, the repeatedly storage that the release user data is gone up from the array to the server in the network process is again transmitted, and can greatly alleviate the load of server, can improve user's average biography rate again, accelerate response speed.
2. by this device memory capacity and channel bandwidth are interrelated, multichannel network disk array of every increase just can increase the network data passage, makes memory capacity, simultaneous growth directly related with data channel speed.
3. the present invention can provide multiple stores service neatly at dissimilar applied environments and requirement: calibrated bolck stores service, based on network stores service and file service.
4. the present invention can be according to requirements such as performance, costs, and " protocol adaptation " provided by the invention method can be used in various storage protocols and the network transmission protocol and medium flexibly.
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Accompanying drawing 1 is the system architecture calcspar of multichannel network disc array controller of the present invention;
Accompanying drawing 2 is formed synoptic diagram for the embodiment of the invention;
Accompanying drawing 3 is the control flow synoptic diagram of operation control module among the present invention;
Accompanying drawing 4 is a protocol adaptation control method of the present invention;
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100 multichannel network disc array controllers
110.1 ~ 110.n host channel 111.1 ~ 111.n host channel interface
120.1 ~ 120.n memory device passage 121.1 ~ 121.n storage device interface
130.1 ~ 130.n network channel 131.1 ~ 131.n network channel interface
112 host channel interface modules, 122 storage device interface modules
132 interface modules, 140 pci buss
150 array operation control modules
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Below in conjunction with accompanying drawing and example the present invention is described in further detail.
Fig. 1 has shown the system block diagrams of control device of the present invention.Multichannel disk array control device 100 of the present invention comprises array operation control module 150, host channel interface module 112, storage device interface module 122 and Network Interface Module 132, passes through pci bus 140 physical connections between each module.
Array operation control module 150 specifically comprises CPU 152, RAM 151 and EPROM 153, provides computing power and running environment to realize the control function of each module initialization, order decomposition/merging, deblocking/reorganization, protocol conversion, cache management and I/O task scheduling.
Host channel interface module 112 is made of host channel interface 111.1 ~ 111.n, is connected with the calibrated bolck device level passage of host computer system.
Storage device interface module 122 is made of storage device interface 121.1 ~ 121.n, provides this device to be connected with memory device.Memory device mainly is all kinds of disc driver, but is not limited to the memory device of this form, is mainly decided by the channel interface type.
Host channel interface and storage device interface are all carried out towards the agreement of block device level, provide the calibrated bolck device service by host channel.Wherein, the host channel interface is arranged to the Peripheral Interface of TARGET attitude, adopts SCSI, FC etc. according to performance, cost.Storage device interface is arranged to the Peripheral Interface of MASTER attitude, as FC, SCSI and IDE etc.
Above-mentioned control device can constitute host channel 110.1 ~ 110.n, and memory device passage 120.1 ~ 120.n and network channel 130.1 ~ 130.n form external multichannel network disk array.
Accompanying drawing 2 is formed synoptic diagram for the embodiment of the invention that is equipped with disc driver.Host channel interface module 111 adopts the SCSI-PCI adapter of the support SCSI channel protocol that a Symbios company produces, and as SYM53C1010 etc., is set to the TARGET duty.Network channel interface module 131 adopts a 100 m ethernet card DFE530TX.121.1, the 121.2 and 121.3 symbios875 SCSI-PCI adapters by three Symbios companies constitute in the storage device interface module, each adapter is controlled a plurality of SCSI hard disk drives that articulate on its SCSI passage 120.1,120.2 and 120.3, forms the disk string.Every string articulates 2 SCSI hard disks in the present embodiment, and model is disk model ST173404LC, is set to 1 and 2 respectively its SCSI ID number.Array operation control module 150 comprises CPU152 (PII450), internal memory MEM151 (64MByte) and EPROM153 (2MByte).Solidify the control program of depositing this device among the EPROM, its process flow diagram as shown in Figure 3.CPU provides required computing power, and internal memory provides control program running space and required buffer memory (Buffer) space.Above-mentioned 4 part of module link to each other by bus pci bus 140.
The control program of this control device by flow process shown in Figure 3 to host channel interface, network channel interface and storage device interface controlling and driving in addition.Its process specifies as follows:
After control device powered up startup, system carried out initialization, set up host channel interruption routine and network channel serve port and monitored routine.If receive main frame SCSI request from the host channel interface, then enter the I/O task queue: if receive network user's request from the network channel serve port with high priority, then deriving from special user's Request Processing process by control module handles, be responsible for deriving one group of I/O order, submit to one by one and enter the I/O task queue according to the device processing power.All I/O that enter the I/O task queue are ordered by after certain priority principle ordering, carry out order according to the array rank that is provided with and decompose, form the command chaining of corresponding a plurality of disks.I/O order on a plurality of command chainings will be handled through the Buffer management function before paying the bottom execution, and execution result is rejected and returned in the order of hitting from command chaining, and all the other orders are transferred to the I/O scheduling process and carried out.The affiliated adapter of disk that the I/O scheduling process is pointed to by order starts corresponding adapter driving disk and carries out the I/O order.After the I/O order that is started all is finished, judge whether all operations is all normal, if inerrancy is then carried out loopback as a result according to the order source.The order that main frame is sent is given main frame by the loopback of host channel interface, finishes main frame I/O task No. one time; The user command execution result turns back to user's Request Processing process, whether user's Request Processing process check user I/O command group all is finished, if all execute, then the result is returned to remote subscriber by network channel, if do not execute as yet, then continue to submit to the I/O order until all finishing to low layer.
In order to make the multiple channel protocol co-ordination that comprises among the present invention, piece or file storage service are provided neatly, this control device is after taking orders from host channel and network channel, start the control and treatment method that adopts " protocol adaptation " before the memory device passage is carried out, to realize the mutual conversion of xenogenesis I/O agreement, make the control device isomery I/O passage of applying in a flexible way satisfy multi-faceted demand, as, a plurality of slow devices channel parallel work, through protocol conversion, be converted to a high-speed channel and offer system's use, promptly system's average biography rate is counted the biography rate near peak-peak.Protocol fitting method is not a kind of corresponding conversion simply one by one, but the merging by I/O order and decomposition, command conversion and virtually reply the multiple technologies realization.Fig. 4 is the implementation model of agreement A to the protocol fitting method of agreement B.After the I/O transmission control of process agreement A extracts the IO order, select for use one of following 5 kinds of methods on agreement B, to carry out:
(1) directly corresponding.If the I/O order identical with cmdX-A arranged among the agreement B, then directly realizes with cmdX-B;
(2) command conversion.Realize with I/O order cmdY-B conversion similar among the agreement B to cmdX-A.
(3) order merges.I/O order cmdX-A some of the same type to the A agreement
1CmdX-A
nRealize with same or analogous I/O order cmdY-B among the agreement B.
(4) order is decomposed.A protocol of I/O order cmdX-A is ordered cmdX-B with same or analogous some I/O among the agreement B
1CmdX-B
nRealize.
(5) virtual replying.When not having same or similar I/O to order among the agreement B, carry out rational execution result simulation, directly respond.
Through such conversion, can guarantee that on the one hand the I/O order that A requires all realizes, can decompose the deficiency that remedies B agreement I/O tenability by order on the other hand, or merge the execution efficient that improves A agreement I/O order by order.
Because the hyperchannel characteristics of this device and the protocol fitting method that is adopted, can there be multiple mode to use this device: as can only utilizing the piece level service of its host channel interface, form traditional DAS system with main frame, if adopt the host channel interface of FC type, and additional FC switch device, then can form the SAN system; Also can only utilize its network channel interface, appended document system and network file host-host protocol on this device can provide NAS service; In addition if make full use of the transmittability of its host channel interface and network channel interface simultaneously, with the management control channel of host channel interface as memory device and file system, with network channel as the user's data transmission channel, then can form high performance network storage service system, it utilizes host channel enforcement centralized management to improve the efficiency of management on the one hand, reduced the expense of coordinating, utilized the network channel of a plurality of these devices to carry out the distributed access transmission on the other hand and can reduce server load, shorten data I/O path, accelerate the actual user data transfer rate.
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1. external multichannel network disc array controller, comprise host channel interface module (112), storage device interface module (122), Network Interface Module (132) and array operation control module (150), first three module links to each other with array operation control module (150) by pci bus (140); Wherein,
Array operation control module (150), comprise CPU (152), RAM (151) and EPROM (153), this module provides computing power and running environment, to realize the control function of each module initialization, order decomposition/merging, protocol conversion, cache management and I/O task scheduling apparatus;
Host channel interface module (112), (111.1 ~ 111.n) constitute, and provide this device to be connected with the calibrated bolck device level passage of host computer system by one or more host channel interfaces;
Storage device interface module (122), (121.1 ~ 121.n) constitute interior one or more storage device interfaces, and being connected of this device and memory device is provided;
Network Interface Module (132), (131.1 ~ 131.n) form, and directly accept the I/O data that the user asked and received and dispatched the user by certain protocol, form the direct data channel between memory device and user by one or more network interfaces;
Host channel interface module (112) and storage device interface module (122) are all carried out towards the agreement of block device level, and the host channel interface is a Peripheral Interface of being arranged to the TARGET attitude; Storage device interface module (122) provides block device level stores service by host channel interface module (112) to main frame for being arranged to the Peripheral Interface of MASTER attitude.
2. the employed protocol fitting method of the described multichannel network disc array controller of claim 1, it is characterized in that: described array operation control module (150) carries out protocol conversion in the following ways, realizes the mutual conversion and the co-ordination of multiple I/O and procotol:
(1) direct corresponded manner:, then directly realize if the I/O order identical with first agreement arranged in second agreement;
(2) command conversion mode: realize with I/O command conversion similar in second agreement to first agreement;
(3) order merging mode: the I/O order some of the same type to first agreement realizes with same or analogous I/O order in second agreement;
(4) order is olation: first protocol of I/O order is realized with same or analogous some I/O orders in second agreement;
(5) virtual response mode: when not having same or similar I/O to order in second agreement, carry out rational execution result simulation, directly respond.
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